Last Day in the Windy City.

This morning, Ash slept in while I ventured out again to get us some awesome coffee from - you guessed it - Intelligentisa.

I ordered an espresso and two 16oz coffees. They make all of their coffees on a Clover. This is an awesome machine that makes the coffee by the cup. You grind the coffee, put in in the clover and out comes an amazing cup. In yesterday's post you heard about the Clover. Here are finally pictures.



Today we had an Ethiopian. It had a blueberry hint in the nose, so I am guessing it was a Harrar.


The espressos today weren't as good as yestersday. Just a little over-extracted. Still drinkable by all means, and served with a smile. The barista seemed a bit flustered as it was pretty busy and she was handling a customer complaint. The girl did an amazing job and made at least three drinks for the lady in front of me, who was not satisfied with her cappuccino. It was nice to see that she cared and the woman was extremely grateful. I love it when customers give us critiques and would like to ask that you continue this. We, like Intelligentsia, put our quality first and if you are ever not satisfied with any of our products, we will refund you or get you want you need ASAP! Just email Chris or Ian for anything you need.

In the end I chatted with the baristas and the girl who made me my shots poured out an awesome cappuccino for a photo op!

For you latte art lovers...











And as always I took a fun pic of my destroyed espressos..












We had to grab a quick lunch because our flight from Chi-town to Buenos Aires (via Toronto) was leaving at 6pm. Ash and I walked for a bit and found a really busy Thai restaurant. The food was decent, with great presentation. It was however a bit weak on the spices. The service was quick and you could tell that they were turning over tables at a very high pace. We ordered crab rangoons, spring rolls, fried tofu, and our entrees. I went with the roasted duck, Ash; the pad thai.

Here is the duck dish...not the best ever but who can turn down duck for $10.

Ash's Pad Thai...not bad, weak on spices.

Fried Tofu...Should make Ian and Nitya proud

Fresh Spring rolls. This was very good...So fresh.

The best dish of the meal...Crab Rangoons, MOM; you would have ate the heck out of these.

The sauce was really great and spicy,(unlike the rest of meal)

Then is was off to the Airport and about 38 hours of traveling. Chicago -> Toronto -> Buenos Aires, Argentina -> Mendoza, Argentina.

See you all in Mendoza!